The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir, Paperback - Justus Rosenberg

Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew's flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the French underground." --US...

A gripping memoir written by a 96-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor about his escape from Nazi-occupied Poland in the 1930's and his adventures wi...

A gripping memoir written by a 96-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor about his escape from Nazi-occupied Poland in the 1930's and his adventures wi...

Reducere. The Resistance, 1940 illuminates the early phase of the French Resistance through first-hand accounts, describing how movements organized themselve...

Reducere. DescriptionSex, Drugs, and False Eyelashes--Surviving an encounter with a gun-wielding lesbian, a car chase by a jealous stranger, and being drowne...

Reducere. Gordon Noel grew up in Montana and studied English literature at Harvard. When he started medical school at Columbia University's College of Physic...

Reducere. When his student and close friend Oliver Smithies accepted his Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology, he singled Field out as someone who was impo...

Reducere. Armenian Aram Haigaz was only 15 when he lost his father, brothers, many relatives and neighbors, all killed or dead of starvation when enemy soldi...

Reducere. This fascinating book tells the remarkable story of an ordinary American woman's heroism in the French Resistance. Virginia Roush fell in love with...

Reducere. The heroine of MARY POPPINS and THE SOUND OF MUSIC tells her life story from the music halls of London to Broadway stardom. Over the years Julie An...

Four Years In the Rockies tells the story of Isaac P. Rose, who went from greenhorn to legendary trapper at the height of the fur-trade in the 1830...

Description Well before the far-right resurgence that has most recently transformed European politics, Austria's 1999 parliamentary elections surpr...

The remarkable and moving story of Jacques Lusseyran, a blind French resistance leader who was interned at Buchenwald.Publisher: Floris BooksAuthor...

'I am one of few Jewish survivors of World War Two, but one of many Jewish people to fight the Nazi regime. Unlike her parents and sister - who, sh...

Reducere. In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed and bestselling first memoir, Home, Julie Andrews continues her story with her arrival in Hollywood, ...

Thirty years ago, I lay in the womb of a woman, conceived in a sexual act of rape, being carried during the prenatal period by an unwilling and reb...

Examining different forms of resistance among Shi'i women in the Middle East and Europe, this book studies the performance of sectarian and gender ...

Reducere. "A frank, intriguing memoir."--People "Painfully shrewd, and written with real delicacy and pathos." --The New York Times Book Review "Home reflect...

Unlike her parents and sister - who, she would later discover, died in other camps - she survived by using her alias, pretending to be someone else.

Reducere. DescriptionNEW: Fifty-five (55) Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index, and General Rufus R. Dawes' Battle Record They were fierce They were tou...

Reducere. The heroine of MARY POPPINS and THE SOUND OF MUSIC tells her life story from the music halls of London to Broadway stardom.

Reducere. DescriptionBehind the Scenes (1868) is both a slave narrative and a portrait of the First Family of America, especially of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife ...

Reducere. SIDE ADead EarlyValkyrieLesser MenThe Ones You Left BehindSIDE BCome Warfare, The Entire DoomLeave No Cross Unturned

Reducere. In this entertaining and informative memoir, University of Virginia alum Joel Gardner delves into the four most turbulent and transformative years ...

Reducere. ``A truly inspiring story, in gorgeous prose, about one family's journey into blueberry farming. Delicious reading.`` --Naomi Wolf, author of The E...

Reducere. Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Brian O'DonovanNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 24Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. The French Resistance has an iconic status in the struggle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe, but its story is entangled in myths. Gaining a true un...

Reducere. DescriptionSince her first appearance on screen in Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews has played a series of memorable roles that have endeared her to gen...

The nearly forgotten story of Soviet dissidentsIt has been nearly three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union--enough time for the role th...

An irreverent diary by a British writer of Donald Trump's presidencyPublisher: The Conrad PressAuthor(s): Jim G. SitchNumber of pages: 432Publicati...

DescriptionServing Time Too: A Memoir of My Son's Prison Years is the universally accessible story of a mother and son: what she knew about him; wh...

The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Rée, told in his own words A school teacher at the start of the war, Harry Rée renounced hi...

Reducere. "Behind the Scenes" is both a slave narrative and a portrait of the First Family, especially Mary Todd Lincoln, and is considered controversial for...

Reducere. April 2020 will mark the 80th Anniversary of the fall of France to Nazi Germany, and the establishment of the provisional government of the Vichy s...

Reducere. Myanmar - shrouded in mystery, misunderstood and isolated for half a century.After a whirlwind romance in Bangladesh, Australian journalist Jessica...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceThe Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Halik KochanskiNumber of pages: 960Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 242 x 165 x 62Cover type: HardbackRedes...

From pricey antiques to kitschy postcards, images of French Bulldogs have graced all manner of objets, both precious and pedestrian, for the better...

A groundbreaking collection on the work of a pioneer of underground comix and a fixture of comics culture. Contributors cast Crumb's work as sophis...

Al Miller brings twenty-five years as a Los Angeles police officer as part of nearly twenty years as a sergeant with rounded experience in criminal...

Reducere. DescriptionChristina N. Baker's Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance is the first book-length analysis of representations ...

Reducere. As the major gateway into British North America for travelers on the Underground Railroad, the U.S./Canadian border along the Detroit River was a b...

Janine Marsh recounts tales from a year in the rural idyll of France, revealing how an expat from London adapts to the changing seasons of the Fren...